Book industry figures among 2020 Australia Day honours recipients
Tuesday, 28 January 2020
A number of authors and book industry figures have been recognised in the annual Australia Day honours. Publisher Jane Covernton was made a Member (AM) in the General Division of...
Faber Writing Academy expands to Brisbane
Tuesday, 28 January 2020
In 2020 Allen & Unwin (A&U) will expand the Faber Writing Academy to offer courses in Brisbane for the first time. Run by UK-based Faber & Faber in partnership with...
Pantera acquires Emanuel’s ‘The Covered Wife’
Friday, 24 January 2020
Pantera Press has acquired ANZ rights to Lisa Emanuel’s debut novel The Covered Wife, via Catherine Drayton at InkWell Management. Emanuel’s novel follows an ambitious young lawyer who falls under...
Gomez leaves PRH
Friday, 24 January 2020
Elena Gomez has left her role as deputy managing editor at Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) to pursue a career in freelance writing and editing. Gomez, who worked at PRH...
Adaptation of Winton’s ‘Blueback’ gets Screen Aus funding
Thursday, 23 January 2020
A feature film adaptation of Tim Winton’s 1997 novella Blueback (Penguin) has received production funding from Screen Australia in its latest funding round. Writer/director Robert Connolly of Arenamedia will work...
Robotham, Tranter nominated for 2020 Edgar Awards
Thursday, 23 January 2020
In the US, Australian authors Michael Robotham and Kirsten Tranter have been shortlisted for 2020 Edgar Allan Poe Awards. The 'Edgars' honour ‘the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television’...
Antigny, Narayan to join Pantera Press
Wednesday, 22 January 2020
Pantera Press has appointed Léa Antigny as head of publicity and communications, and Kajal Narayan in the role of marketing manager. Antigny and Narayan will replace current publicity and marketing...
New Zealand book market up 2.3% in 2019
Wednesday, 22 January 2020
New Zealand book sales were up 2.3% in value and 3.5% by volume in the past year, according to data from Nielsen BookScan. In total, 6.4 million units were sold...
Hazel Rowley Fellowship 2020 shortlist announced
Wednesday, 22 January 2020
Writers Victoria has announced the shortlist for the 2020 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, awarded annually to an Australian writer for a proposed biographical work. The shortlisted writers and their projects...
‘The Whole Fish Cookbook’ wins André Simon Food and Drink book award
Wednesday, 22 January 2020
In the UK, Sydney chef Josh Niland's The Whole Fish Cookbook (Hardie Grant) has won the 2019 Food Award at the André Simon Food and Drink Awards. According to the Bookseller,...
Hachette acquires Byrne’s book on family history
Wednesday, 22 January 2020
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to a new book by journalist and TV personality Jennifer Byrne, based on the lives of two 14th-century English regal women who are Byrne’s...
NewSouth acquires van Zweden’s memoir
Tuesday, 21 January 2020
NewSouth has acquired world rights to Sam van Zweden’s memoir Eating with My Mouth Open, which recently won the 2019 Kill Your Darlings unpublished manuscript award. Commissioning editor Harriet McInerney said: ‘Sam...
Black Inc sells world rights to ‘Solved!’
Tuesday, 21 January 2020
Black Inc. has sold world rights (ex ANZ) to Andrew Wear’s book Solved!: How other countries have cracked the world's biggest problems and we can too to Oneworld UK. Black...
#AuthorsForFireys raises $486,600 for bushfire relief
Tuesday, 21 January 2020
The #AuthorsForFireys campaign has confirmed $486,600 in donations for bushfire relief across Australia. Campaign co-organiser and author Emily Gale said the campaign registered an additional $43,400 in pledged donations that...
Gannon’s ‘The Mothers’ sold to US, optioned for TV
Tuesday, 21 January 2020
Jeanne Ryckmans from Cameron’s Management has sold North American rights to journalist Genevieve Gannon’s novel The Mothers (A&U) to William Morrow. The novel has also been optioned for television by...
Booktopia launches $5k Favourite Australian Book award
Monday, 20 January 2020
Booktopia has launched the Favourite Australian Book (FAB) award, replacing its annual Australia’s Favourite Author poll. The author of the winning book, as determined by an online poll open to...
Full program announced for 2020 Perth Festival Literature & Ideas Weekend
Monday, 20 January 2020
The full program has been announced for the 2020 Perth Festival Literature & Ideas weekend, which runs from 21–23 February. International guests attending the festival include English children’s author Julia...
Johnson wins 2020 Peter Porter Poetry Prize
Monday, 20 January 2020
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced A Frances Johnson as the winner of the 2020 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, for her poem ‘My Father’s Thesaurus’. Johnson receives $7000. The...
New gift imprint for Smith Street Books
Friday, 17 January 2020
Smith Street Books will launch a new gift imprint in 2020. Smith Street Gift will include a range of games and memorabilia with characters and quotes from TV shows like...
PRH sells ‘The Tiny Star’ to US
Friday, 17 January 2020
Penguin Random House Australia has sold North American rights to Mem Fox’s picture book The Tiny Star (illus by Freya Blackwood) to Knopf Books for Young Readers. Editorial director of...
‘Future Fit’ shortlisted for UK Business Book Award
Friday, 17 January 2020
In the UK, Andrea Clarke's book Future Fit (Major Street) has been shortlisted in the 2020 Business Book Awards. Shortlisted in the International Book category, Future Fit looks at disruption and...
Wilson appointed Berbay sales and marketing manager
Friday, 17 January 2020
Kirsty Wilson has been appointed sales and marketing manager at Berbay Publishing. Wilson was previously sales and marketing director at Text Publishing for 14 years. According to Berbay, sales growth...
Writers awarded OzCo international residencies for 2020–21
Thursday, 16 January 2020
The Australia Council has announced eight writers as recipients of international development residencies as part of its latest grants round. Lisa Gorton, Robert Lukins, Fiona McGregor and Sandra Thibodeaux will...
UQP acquires Christopher Raja memoir in ‘spirited’ auction
Thursday, 16 January 2020
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to a memoir by Melbourne-based author Christopher Raja, in what literary agent Martin Shaw of Alex Adsett Publishing Services described...
Australian Romance Readers Awards 2019 finalists announced
Thursday, 16 January 2020
The finalists for the 2019 Australian Romance Readers Awards have been announced. Six authors have been shortlisted for the favourite Australian romance author category. They are: Alissa Callen Kelly Hunter...
CBCA, Little Bookroom organise book drives for bushfire-affected children
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) in November announced a partnership with the not-for-profit Givit to raise money to buy books for children and young adults affected by the bushfire...
Lit orgs, writers receive Create NSW funding
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
A number of literary organisations and writers are among the recipients of round one of Create NSW’s annual organisation, project and Creative Koori Projects arts funding program, which has allocated...
Text celebrates Coetzee’s 80th birthday with special collection
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Text Publishing will celebrate J M Coetzee’s 80th birthday with a special collection of writings in honour of the South Africa-born, Australian writer. Coetzee’s partner of more than 40 years,...
Indie Book Awards 2020 shortlists announced
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Leading Edge Books has announced the shortlists for the 2020 Indie Book Awards for the best Australian books published in 2019. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction There...
Ventura sells UK rights to ‘Paris Savages’
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Ventura Press has sold UK rights to Katherine Johnson’s novel Paris Savages to independent publisher Allison and Busby. Paris Savages, which was written as part of Johnson’s PhD, is based...
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